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This volume is a focused look at two bodies of work, the Tirs (“shooting paintings”) and Nanas (“dames”), in the experimental 1960s practice of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Alongside a poetic response to the work, four essays treat Saint Phalle’s oeuvre as works of radical performance and feminist art, as well as highlighting her transatlantic projects(...)
Nikki de Saint Phalle in the 60s
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This volume is a focused look at two bodies of work, the Tirs (“shooting paintings”) and Nanas (“dames”), in the experimental 1960s practice of the French-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Alongside a poetic response to the work, four essays treat Saint Phalle’s oeuvre as works of radical performance and feminist art, as well as highlighting her transatlantic projects and collaborations. A chronology with photo-documentation and known participants details for the first time all Tirs shooting events in Europe and the United States, and another timeline recaps Saint Phalle’s life in the 1960s.
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Sibylle Eimermacher is a German-born artist who has lived in the Netherlands for more than two decades. A few years ago, the reds, browns, and purples of granite and porphyry found on sandy Dutch terrains caught her eye. Research into these glacial erratics pointed her to two regions, the Dalarna province in Sweden and the Åland archipelago in Finland, reawakening her(...)
Sibylle Eimermacher: A guide through hue
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Sibylle Eimermacher is a German-born artist who has lived in the Netherlands for more than two decades. A few years ago, the reds, browns, and purples of granite and porphyry found on sandy Dutch terrains caught her eye. Research into these glacial erratics pointed her to two regions, the Dalarna province in Sweden and the Åland archipelago in Finland, reawakening her urge to travel north. This book is the outcome of her quest, leading to where the rocks lay bare, to the open veins that pigment the landscape as they leave behind their native Scandinavian bedrock to eventually fade into the Dutch flatlands – a surrender to the universal condition of constant change.
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Luzia Simons: traces
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This publication presents a comprehensive survey of the artist’s oeuvre and an overview of her exhibitions of the past three decades. The luxuriant equatorial forests and voluptuous vegetation of Brazil and the cultural implications of plant genera and flowers are integral to the imagery of Luzia Simons’s art. In watercolors, paintings, photographs, and tapestries, the(...)
Luzia Simons: traces
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This publication presents a comprehensive survey of the artist’s oeuvre and an overview of her exhibitions of the past three decades. The luxuriant equatorial forests and voluptuous vegetation of Brazil and the cultural implications of plant genera and flowers are integral to the imagery of Luzia Simons’s art. In watercolors, paintings, photographs, and tapestries, the artist probes the impenetrable role that nature plays, employing pictorial techniques of her own devising to create poetic studies of forms and colors. Simons is a pioneer in the development of the scanogram—a media technique that combines elements of painting and photography. Arranging blossoms and leaves of a wide range of tulip cultivars on a high-resolution scanner, she produces imposing works that boast intense and brilliant colors and stupendous definition. Just as nature and culture are in constant transformation, identities never remain fixed: that is what Simons’s work illustrates to stunning effect.
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The polar world
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This publication combines fantasy and reality: giant squids, hybrids, and humanoid figures dance across Shuvinai Ashoona’s sensual vistas, lending a surreal quality to her work. Springing her imagination but rooted in the landscape of her Kinngait home, ''The polar world'' combines Ashoona’s drawings from her 2017 exhibition with a narrative by Andrew Hunter.
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The polar world
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This publication combines fantasy and reality: giant squids, hybrids, and humanoid figures dance across Shuvinai Ashoona’s sensual vistas, lending a surreal quality to her work. Springing her imagination but rooted in the landscape of her Kinngait home, ''The polar world'' combines Ashoona’s drawings from her 2017 exhibition with a narrative by Andrew Hunter.
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Figure majeure de l'art américain des années 1970, Gordon Matta-Clark a produit un corpus d'œuvres d'une grande diversité. Expérimentations sur la matière, installations, performances, découpes architecturales, dessins, films, photographies, ou photomontages témoignent de cette multiplicité de démarches et de mediums explorés. C'est au travers de ses découpes (cuttings)(...)
L'architecture selon Gordon Matta-Clark
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Figure majeure de l'art américain des années 1970, Gordon Matta-Clark a produit un corpus d'œuvres d'une grande diversité. Expérimentations sur la matière, installations, performances, découpes architecturales, dessins, films, photographies, ou photomontages témoignent de cette multiplicité de démarches et de mediums explorés. C'est au travers de ses découpes (cuttings) et dissections de bâtiments qu'il s'est fait d'abord connaître, en intervenant sur des immeubles abandonnés et voués à la démolition. Ces spectaculaires découpes ont longtemps prévalu dans les analyses, et ont le plus souvent été considérées comme des attaques portées contre l'architecture. Pourtant, architecte de formation, Gordon Matta-Clark a surtout cherché à expérimenter, selon ses termes, « les usages alternatifs d'espaces qui sont les plus familiers ». Sur la base de documents d'archives, cet ouvrage propose de lire ses travaux depuis ce point de vue venant de l'architecture, en envisageant les mouvements de sa pensée spatiale et ses enjeux architecturaux, dans tous les lieux singuliers explorés. Que ce soit en découpant les murs, planchers et plafonds de bâtiments abandonnés ; en créant une perspective implicite sous une dalle funéraire ; en installant un abri dans un arbre ; en dessinant des maisons-paniers mobiles ; en construisant un mur à partir de déchets trouvés dans la rue ; en voulant grimper au ciel avec une échelle en corde ou en voulant habiter dans un immeuble ballon, que disent ses projets de son idée d'architecture ?
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Francis Alÿs
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Publiée à l'occasion de l'exposition de Francis Alÿs au Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne en 2021, cette monographie s'articule autour de quelques motifs essentiels qui caractérisent la pratique de l'artiste d'origine belge basé au Mexique : sa pratique vidéo depuis trente ans ; l'importance de la déambulation et de la marche pour sa méthode artistique ; son(...)
Francis Alÿs
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Publiée à l'occasion de l'exposition de Francis Alÿs au Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne en 2021, cette monographie s'articule autour de quelques motifs essentiels qui caractérisent la pratique de l'artiste d'origine belge basé au Mexique : sa pratique vidéo depuis trente ans ; l'importance de la déambulation et de la marche pour sa méthode artistique ; son intérêt pour les jeux d'enfants qu'il filme dans différents pays depuis 1999. De la déambulation urbaine à l'exploration des territoires et de leurs frontières documentée par des images en mouvement, le travail d'Alÿs propose une poétique de l'espace à travers des récits brefs dont la finesse et la justesse expliquent sa renommée. Si son travail interroge le lien entre acte artistique et intervention politique, l'artiste travaille toujours par allusions, avec une précision et une économie de moyens remarquables, préférant la polysémie poétique au commentaire politique frontal, privilégiant la fusion d'espaces imaginaires planifiés avec ses propres espaces fictionnels. La publication documente également Reel-Unreel, l'un des projets majeurs d'Alÿs réalisé en Afghanistan, comprenant des jeux pour enfants et des boucles d'animation dessinées à la main ainsi que des peintures et des œuvres graphiques.
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The archive of Dark
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"The Archive of Dark" is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included two separate yet coherent exhibitions; "Influenza, Theatre of Glowing Darkness", 2017 and "Renaissance of the Night", 2018. The book weaves together a dense collection of historic imagery into an organic and emotive narrative. It features a series of(...)
The archive of Dark
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"The Archive of Dark" is a book project acting as an epilogue to a body of work investigating darkness that included two separate yet coherent exhibitions; "Influenza, Theatre of Glowing Darkness", 2017 and "Renaissance of the Night", 2018. The book weaves together a dense collection of historic imagery into an organic and emotive narrative. It features a series of letters from a variety of contributors that include perceptual, intellectual, spiritual, scientific and artistic reflections.
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Over the course of her career, Helen Pashgian has produced a significant series of sculptures comprised of vibrantly colored columns, lenses, and spheres, which often feature an isolated element appearing suspended, embedded, or encased within them. Using an innovative application of industrial epoxies, plastics and resins, Pashgian’s works are characterized by their(...)
Helen Pashigan: Spheres and lenses
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Over the course of her career, Helen Pashgian has produced a significant series of sculptures comprised of vibrantly colored columns, lenses, and spheres, which often feature an isolated element appearing suspended, embedded, or encased within them. Using an innovative application of industrial epoxies, plastics and resins, Pashgian’s works are characterized by their translucent surfaces that appear to filter and somehow contain illumination.
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of artist Louise Bourgeois. This body of work began when the artist started incorporating clothes from all stages of her life into her art, and later expanded to include a range of other textiles such as bed linen, handkerchiefs, tapestry, and needlepoint. The fabric(...)
Louise Bourgeois: The woven child
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This book provides a comprehensive overview of the fabric works from the last two decades in the career of artist Louise Bourgeois. This body of work began when the artist started incorporating clothes from all stages of her life into her art, and later expanded to include a range of other textiles such as bed linen, handkerchiefs, tapestry, and needlepoint. The fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation, and serve as metaphors for emotional and psychological states. The catalogue – which accompanies the exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, and the Gropius Bau, Berlin – features works from numerous series, including the monumental Cell installations, figurative sculptures, and abstract drawings.
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Nick Cave: Forothermore
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The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, this book highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. This publication reveals the(...)
Nick Cave: Forothermore
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The definitive volume on the ever-evolving and shape-shifting work of the Chicago-based artist, this book highlights the way Cave’s practice has shifted and continues to shift in response to our history and current moment of cultural crisis. Including several new, never-before-seen works, the book shows an artist at the height of his power. This publication reveals the way art, music, fashion, and performance can help us envision a more just future.
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